A six-foot-wide, 30-feet long, three-ton shipping container that took three years to fill with humanitarian goods meant for the Congo now stands empty in the Red Barn Warehouse and Storage in the Town of Georgia.
A local priest who coordinated efforts to fill the container claims the items – valued at more than $30,000 -- were illegally disposed of, but the new owner of the business says the contents were confiscated when a predetermined date for their removal passed.
The parochial assistant priest at Holy Angels Catholic Church and Ascension parish in Georgia, Father Daniel Lokanga, went Wednesday morning with his attorney, Luke Richter, to file a complaint with the Vermont State Police, alleging that former Red Barn owner, Al Balval, and present owner, Paul Barrenger, without written notice or verbal agreement have sold items they took from the container and then dumped the remainder.
